Big night tonight in darts. The Mirror documents the huge match.
...Phil 'The Power' Taylor's showdown with Raymond van Barneveld in the Ladbrokes.com darts world championship tonight is at least guaranteed to leave everyone at the Circus Tavern on the edge of their hangovers.
As a sport, darts is hoping to go big time, even to be be added as an Olympic sport. Thus, the sport added anti-doping testing. We documented one player who failed the urine test here.
Barneveld, 39, beat Taylor twice last year at the UK Open and the Las Vegas Classic, and he has hated losing ever since he cried when Holland lost to West Germany in the 1974 World Cup Final, his earliest sporting memory...
"And one day I would like to see darts become an Olympic sport. It is more than just a pub game now, and you can get banned for failing a drugs test like any other athlete, but in reality, I can't see it happening in time for London 2012."
Good luck, gentlemen, and no drug-cheats.
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